#nov

It's extremely hard to build a company with a product that everyone loves, is free and has no business model, and then to innovate a business model. I did that with Kazaa, had half a billion downloads but that wasn't a sustainable business. ↗

— Niklas Zennstrom

#build #business #business model #company #did

I do not think that music keeps evolving. It evolved through Bach; since then, in my humble opinion, all the innovations added nothing. ↗

— Gordon Getty

#bach #evolved #evolving #humble #humble opinion

The actual Blue Rose murders, which lie at the core of the three novels, yield various incorrect solutions which assume the status of truth. ↗

— Peter Straub

#assume #blue #core #incorrect #lie

The best project is one that asks a novel question. ↗

— Walter Gilbert

#best #novel #project #question

This notion that it is up to each person to innovate in some way flies in the face of the industrial age, but you know what, the industrial age is over. ↗

— Seth Godin

#each #face #flies #industrial #innovate

Romance and novel paint beauty in colors more charming than nature, and describe a happiness that humans never taste. How deceptive and destructive are those pictures of consummate bliss! ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#bliss #charming #colors #consummate #deceptive

Historians tell the story of the past, novelists the story of the present. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#novelists #past #present #story #tell

Nothing is more dangerous than a dogmatic worldview - nothing more constraining, more blinding to innovation, more destructive of openness to novelty. ↗

— Stephen Jay Gould

#constraining #dangerous #destructive #dogmatic #innovation

'Somebody That I Used to Know,' like a lot of the record, was a bit of a struggle to finish. It was written fairly quickly - I wrote it in November 2010 - but it took six months to find Kimbra and really realize she was the right vocalist to make the female part come to life. There were constant hurdles. ↗

— Gotye

#come #constant #fairly #female #find

Of the first seven novels I wrote, numbers four and five were published. Numbers one, two, three, six, and seven, have never seen the light of day... and rightly so. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#first #five #four #i #light